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All you Jefferson haters just can't handle his sauce

Harcher said:
Al is playing 33 mins per game, Sap, 28. (Kobe is 37, LeBron 37, as well as the rest of the top 10 scorers who are in the 35+ range) I think this is also the result of having a bench (good bench)
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Well of course it is a deep bench, but i hit before i finished. The key take away is that Ty Lawson's game tonight degenerated at about the final 5 min mark or so. SAP brought his game up in the 4th.
 
Harcher said:
Well of course it is a deep bench, but i hit before i finished. The key take away is that Ty Lawson's game tonight degenerated at about the final 5 min mark or so. SAP brought his game up in the 4th.
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That is to be expected. Lawson is uncontainable if he is really attacking the basket at 100% effort. He just can't do that for a whole game, no one can.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
How the hell did he improve so much in a matter of weeks. Even his defense is much improved, not perfect but considering he is an offensive specialist you can't argue with what he gave us tonight on defense.
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It wasn't that hard of a transition.

Biggest step was that he had to decide to try--something Boozer never did on a regular basis.

Kudos to the coaching staff (or AJ himself) for lighting a fire under Big Al's big azz.

A small amount of credit goes to Favors and Underkanter for unwittingly demonstrating that Jefferson's playing time wasn't a given--at least not 30 to 35 minutes' worth.
 
The biggest reason we will be successful this year is the Al/Sap combo. Very few teams in the NBA start 2 bigs who can contain them both. We've seen the Jazz feed Al or Sap at different times based on matchups and it's killing our opponents. Ty is playing the matchup game beautifully so that we constantly feed the mismatches. The difference this year, though, is they're both looking for each other on offensive sets. Al and Sap playing together is lethal.
 
How the hell did he improve so much in a matter of weeks.
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I believe that he worked a great deal on conditioning, maybe so much that he lost touch a little bit with how to play the game. Took a week or so to get it back.

As for how we keep our huge front line, we need to let go of the concept of having a superstar point guard. You can't pay max contracts to the entire starting line, there have to be some role players, and I believe that it is time for that role player to be at the point. Get a couple of players that can get the ball up the court, make good passes and shoot when necessary, but not ones that are superstars. Then we have an extra ten mil to spend on one of the best front-courts in the league. We have several good passing 2's and 3's, the offence doesn't have to come from the point guard spot exclusively, we'd be wasting the passing ability that we have at other positions.
 
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